Pedal power | David Heatley

David Heatley, director of Cycling-Inform, rides between eight and 13 hours a week, covering up to 350 kilometres.

My parents didn’t have a car when I was a teenager so I bought a bike. I did cross-country running with my dad until I went for a group ride. That day I came in way ahead of all of the boys I raced cross-country with. I went on to race at state and national level as a junior.

I have eight bikes. Six are restored retro racing bikes from the 1980s. I have only one that I ride. I’m thinking of buying a mountain bike and a cyclo cross bike to ride during winter.

I do around eight to 13 hours a week. It is mainly training rides or road coaching with my clients.

Yes, always. I’m riding in my company’s cycling kit so it’s very important for me to set an example.

Get out and enjoy the ride, take your bike on holiday with you if you are able to and team up with like-minded cyclists and ride with them. If you want to really improve your fitness quickly, find a master [cycle coach] and learn how to ride and train correctly.

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My wife, Jodie, and my training partner Olof. Sometimes I like to go on my own. That gives me time to think.

I don’t have one. I prefer to eat at home. I only go to coffee shops to socialise and not for the coffee.

Any major climb in Italy then Mt Buffalo in Bright, Victoria.

When I was a teenager out training, I managed to fall off my bike and knock myself out for around 10 minutes. I woke up beside the road covered in blood with a broken bike. A couple who drove by took me to a medical centre where I was patched up. Olof, my training partner, and I had a nasty fall on Falls Creek. A car cut a corner and took out Olof as he was descending. I was right behind him when it happened and had nowhere to go. I managed to walk away from the accident. Olof was lucky to be alive.